The Newtown Pentacle

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Friday, Friday, which seat should I take?

– photo by Mitch Waxman

While the above shot was being captured, one was standing just a few feet away from one of the City’s Bioswales – or as they’ve been renamed “rain gardens.” Absolute legions of cockroaches were seething in and out of the planting. I don’t mean roaches of the sort that you might encounter under your kitchen sink, I mean the giant two inch long flying variety. The kind that doesn’t give a shit about you, or how many times you stamp your feet.

In NYC, the conqueror worm is a cockroach. If they ever get organized…

– photo by Mitch Waxman

While I was taking this shot, behind me and across the street, some fellow was sitting behind the wheel of his car staring at me while he was smoking a marijuana cigarette. Whoever was in the passenger seat must’ve dropped something, since I saw their head repeatedly bobbing up and down in the shadows within the car. They seemed nice.

One decided to head back home to Astoria.

– photo by Mitch Waxman

Here at the HQ fortress, with its moat and towers, one felt safe from any possible incursion by Antifa, Trumpist Militias, Woman hating Neckbeards, Rosicrucians – or just about any other random threat which click hungry websites have told me are coming this way to take away my things. Without things, what are we?

Back next week with something totally different.

Note: I’m writing this and several of the posts you’re going to see for the next week at the beginning of the week of Monday, July 13th. My plan is to continue doing my solo photo walks around LIC and the Newtown Creek in the dead of night as long as that’s feasible. If you continue to see regular updates here, that means everything is kosher as far as health and well being. If the blog stops updating, it means that things have gone badly for a humble narrator.


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Written by Mitch Waxman

July 17, 2020 at 3:00 pm

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  1. “Without things, what are we?” Excellent Objectivist point Mitch. Property rights are indeed human rights.

    And further: “They seemed nice.” Who? The reefer smoker? The head bobber? Or both?

    georgetheatheist . . . dgging deeply

    July 18, 2020 at 12:18 pm


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